Postal Service sees a legal loophole to end Saturday service

Beleaguered USPS tries to slip through legal loophole that Congress might plug; if allowed, change would come in August

11:55 PM,
Feb. 6, 2013

Vicki Moorman can't always count on sunshine in February, but Wednesday was a fine day to deliver mail along Cambridge Road in Lafayette. Moorman has been with the U.S. Postal Service for more than 17 years.

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The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service has kicked around the idea of ending Saturday mail delivery for years. On Wednesday, it took a step closer to becoming official policy.

Starting Aug. 10, home delivery of mail on Saturday will be a service consigned to history books, but Saturday delivery of packages will continue, said Mary Dando, U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman for the Indiana district. Mail will continue to be put in post office boxes, and post offices will remain open on Saturdays.

However, Congress has voted in the past to bar the idea of eliminating Saturday delivery, and ...